Green Day Alters Lyrics to Reference Israel-Palestine War During Epic Coachella Set: ‘Runnin’ Away From Pain Like the Kids From Palestine’

Here’s how Charli XCX shaded headliner Green Day at a Coachella 2025 afterparty

At her star-studded Coachella afterparty, Charli XCX made a sartorial statement that seemed to take a dig at Saturday headliner Green Day.

Green Day Alters ‘Jesus of Suburbia’ Lyric In Support Of Palestine At Coachella

After nearly 40 years, Green Day is still using their music as a megaphone to protest the world’s injustices. While headlining Saturday at Coachella, the punk band used their 2004 single ‘Jesus of Suburbia’ to call attention to the suffering of Palestinian children amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict. “Runnin’ away from pain, like the kids from Palestine / Tales from another broken home,” sang frontman Billie Joe Armstrong in the lyric th…

Forgotten: Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials review – existence is resistance

In mapping the Palestinian history and culture that persists despite Israeli suppression, Raja Shehadeh and Penny Johnson display a strength of purpose and a promise of hopeRaja Shehadeh – lawyer, activist and Palestine’s greatest prose writer – has long been a voice of sanity and measure in the fraught, tendentious world of Arab-Israeli politics. His first non-academic book, When the Bulbul Stopped Singing, chronicled the 2002 siege of his home…

Green Day swaps in Palestine lyric at Coachella

During Green Day's headlining Coachella set, the band changed a lyric of the song "Jesus of Suburbia" to show support for children in Palestine.

Green Day Alters Lyrics to Reference Israel-Palestine War During Epic Coachella Set: ‘Runnin’ Away From Pain Like the Kids From Palestine’

Green Day is nothing, if not always, a political act. And so of course there was something to be expected as a statement during their debut headlining performance at Coachella on Saturday night, when they tweaked the lyrics of “Jesus of Suburbia” to reflect the ongoing war between Israel and Palestine. While performing the song, […]

‘Not Part of the MAGA Agenda’: Green Day Tear Through Decades of Hits During Coachella Debut

The energy at Coachella had started to shift even before Green Day’s long-awaited headlining set on Saturday night. About an hour earlier, Charli XCX had sent the crowd into an all-out frenzy with a set that included surprise appearances from Lorde, Billie Eilish, and Troye Sivan. Then, before Clairo started playing at the Outdoor Theatre, Bernie Sanders came out and made a passionate political speech, urging festival-goers to fight for the coun…